Image 1Two Chiwara c. late 19th early 20th centuries, Art Institute of Chicago. Female (left) and male Vertical styles (from Sculpture)

Image 2Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)

Image 3Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)

Image 4Silk painting depicting a man riding a dragon, painting on silk, dated to 5th–3rd century BC, Warring States period, from Zidanku Tomb no. 1 in Changsha, Hunan Province (from History of painting)

Image 5Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)

Image 6The Drawing Class, by Michiel Sweerts, c. 1656 (from Visual arts education)

Image 7Mother Goddess A miniature painting of the Pahari style, dating to the eighteenth century. Pahari and Rajput miniatures share many common features. (from History of painting)

Image 8An Ethiopian illuminated Evangelist portrait of Mark the Evangelist, from the Ethiopian Garima Gospels, 6th century AD, Kingdom of Aksum (from History of painting)

Image 9Seated Bodhisattva Guanyin, wood and pigment, 11th century, Northern Song dynasty. (from Sculpture)

Image 10Edgar Degas, Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, cast in 1922 from a mixed-media sculpture modeled c. 1879–80, Bronze, partly tinted, with cotton (from Sculpture)

Image 11The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)

Image 12Two Scribes Seated with Books and a Writing Table Fragment of a decorative margin Northern India (Mughal school), ca. 1640–1650 (from History of painting)

Image 13The Brunswick Lion, 1166, the first large hollow casting of a figure since antiquity, 1.78 metres tall and 2.79 metres long (from Sculpture)

Image 14Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)

Image 15French ivory Virgin and Child, end of 13th century, 25 cm high, curving to fit the shape of the ivory tusk (from Sculpture)

Image 16Section of Trajan's Column, CE 113, with scenes from the Dacian Wars (from Sculpture)

Image 17A carved wooden Bodhisattva from China's Song dynasty 960–1279, Shanghai Museum (from Sculpture)

Image 18Detail of Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Spanish, wood and polychrome, 1793. (from Sculpture)

Image 19Mask from Gabon (from Sculpture)

Image 20Diego Rivera, Recreation of Man at the Crossroads (renamed Man, Controller of the Universe), originally created in 1934, Mexican muralism movement (from History of painting)

Image 21The Dying Gaul, or The Capitoline Gaul a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums, Rome (from Sculpture)

Image 22Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)

Image 23Francis Picabia, (Left) Le saint des saints c'est de moi qu'il s'agit dans ce portrait, 1 July 1915; (center) Portrait d'une jeune fille americaine dans l'état de nudité, 5 July 1915: (right) J'ai vu et c'est de toi qu'il s'agit, De Zayas! De Zayas! Je suis venu sur les rivages du Pont-Euxin, New York, 1915 (from History of painting)

Image 24Cylinder seal with its impression on clay; serpopards and eagles, Uruk Period, 4100–3000 BCE (from Sculpture)

Image 25Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)

Image 26Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)

Image 27Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)

Image 28Venus of Willendorf, c. 24,000–26,000 BP (from Sculpture)

Image 29Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)

Image 30Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)

Image 31Nuremberg sculptor Adam Kraft, self-portrait from St Lorenz Church, 1490s. (from Sculpture)

Image 32Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)

Image 33Hindu Gupta terracotta relief, 5th century CE, of Krishna Killing the Horse Demon Keshi (from Sculpture)

Image 34Michelangelo's Moses, (c. 1513–1515), San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, for the tomb of Pope Julius II (from Sculpture)

Image 35Venus of Laussel c. 27,000 BP, an Upper Palaeolithic carving, Bordeaux museum, France (from Sculpture)

Image 36The Pergamene style of the Hellenistic period, from the Pergamon Altar, early 2nd century (from Sculpture)

Image 37Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)

Image 38Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)

Image 39Device to Root Out Evil (1997) sculpture by Dennis Oppenheim at
Palma de Mallorca, Plaça de la Porta de Santa Catalina (from Sculpture)

Image 40Urfa Man, in the Şanlıurfa Museum; sandstone, 1.80 meters, c. 9,000 BCE (from Sculpture)

Image 41Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)

Image 42Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne in the Galleria Borghese, 1622–1625 (from Sculpture)

Image 43Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti, 1345 BCE, Egyptian Museum of Berlin (from Sculpture)

Image 44Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)

Image 45Book of Hours (from History of painting)

Image 46The Eternal Father Painting the Virgin of Guadalupe. Attributed to Joaquín Villegas (1713 – active in 1753) (Mexican) (painter, Museo Nacional de Arte. (from History of painting)

Image 47Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)

Image 48Ludwig Gies, cast iron plaquette, 8 x 9.8 cm, Refugees, 1915 (from Sculpture)

Image 49Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)

Image 50Edward Hopper 1942, American Scene painting (from History of painting)

Image 51Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)

Image 52Charioteer of Delphi, ancient Greek bronze sculpture, 5th century BCE, close up head detail (from Sculpture)

Image 53Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson, in 2005 (from Sculpture)

Image 54Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)

Image 55A Jōmon dogū figure, 1st millennium BCE, Japan (from Sculpture)

Image 56High Classical high relief from the Elgin Marbles, which originally decorated the Parthenon, c. 447–433 BCE (from Sculpture)

Image 57Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, in Kalimantan, Indonesia, one of the oldest known figurative paintings in the world, a depiction of a bull, has been dated to be 40,000 years old. (from History of painting)

Image 58Moai from Easter Island, where the concentration of resources on large sculpture may have had serious political effects. (from Sculpture)

Image 59Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)

Image 60Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)

Image 61Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)

Image 62Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)

Image 63Creeping Hyena, c. 12–17,000 BP, mammoth ivory, found in La Madeleine, France (from Sculpture)

Image 64Swimming Reindeer c. 13,000 BP, female and male swimming reindeer – late Magdalenian period, found at Montastruc, Tarn et Garonne, France (from Sculpture)

Image 65David Smith, CUBI VI, (1963), Israel Museum, Jerusalem. (from Sculpture)

Image 66Pettakere Cave are more than 44,000 years old, Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia (from History of painting)

Image 67One of the first representations of the Buddha, 1st–2nd century CE, Gandhara (from Sculpture)

Image 68Silver monster on a chape, Scottish or Anglo-Saxon, St Ninian's Isle Treasure, c. 800? (from Sculpture)

Image 69Art model posing in a French painting school following the atelier method (from Visual arts education)

Image 70The Gero Cross, c. 965–970, Cologne, Germany. The first great example of the revival of large sculpture (from Sculpture)

Image 71Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)

Image 72Assyrian lamassu gate guardian from Khorsabad, circa 800–721 BCE (from Sculpture)

Image 73Löwenmensch, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, now in Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany, the oldest known anthropomorphic animal-human statuette, Aurignacian era, c. 35–40,000 BP (from Sculpture)

Image 74Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th-century Japan, ivory with shell inlay (from Sculpture)

Image 75Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)

Image 76Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)

Image 77Henry Moore, Large Reclining Figure, 1984 (based on a smaller model of 1938), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (from Sculpture)

Image 78Adult art education class at the Brooklyn Museum in 1935. (from Visual arts education)

Image 79Adriaen de Vries, Mercury and Psyche Northern Mannerist life-size bronze, made in 1593 for Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. (from Sculpture)

Image 80Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)

Image 81Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)

Image 82Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)

Image 83Modern reconstruction of the original painted appearance of a Late Archaic Greek marble figure from the Temple of Aphaea, based on analysis of pigment traces, c. 500 BCE (from Sculpture)

Image 84Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)

Image 85Dale Chihuly, 2006, (Blown glass) (from Sculpture)

Image 86A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)

Image 87Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)

Image 88Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)

Image 89Small Greek terracotta figurines were very popular as ornaments in the home (from Sculpture)

Image 90The Angel of the North by Antony Gormley, 1998 (from Sculpture)

Image 91Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)

Image 92St. James panel, from reredos in Cristo Rey Church, Santa Fe, New Mexico, c. 1760 (from Sculpture)

Image 93Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Umbrellas 1991, Japan (from Sculpture)

Image 94Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660 (from History of painting)

Image 95A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)

Image 96Open air Buddhist rock reliefs at the Longmen Grottoes, China (from Sculpture)

Image 97Gaston Lachaise, Floating Figure 1927, bronze, no. 5 from an edition of 7, National Gallery of Australia (from Sculpture)

Image 98Loquats and Mountain Bird, anonymous artist of the Southern Song dynasty; paintings in leaf album style such as this were popular in the Southern Song (1127–1279). (from History of painting)

Image 99Discussion class on art appreciation at Shimer College (from Visual arts education)

Image 1009th-century Khmer lintel (from Sculpture)

Image 101Michelangelo, Pietà, 1499 (from Sculpture)

Image 102Sumerian male worshipper, alabaster with shell eyes, 2750−2600 BCE (from Sculpture)

Image 103Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)

Image 104Antonio Canova: Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss, 1787 (from Sculpture)

Image 105Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)

Image 106Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)

Image 107Michelangelo, The Tomb of Pope Julius II, c. 1545, with statues of Rachel and Leah on the left and right of his Moses (from Sculpture)

Image 108The Trundholm sun chariot, perhaps 1800–1500 BCE; this side is gilded, the other is "dark". (from Sculpture)

Image 109Visible damage due to acid rain on a sculpture (from Sculpture)

Image 110Augustan state Greco-Roman style on the Ara Pacis, 13 BCE (from Sculpture)

Image 111Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)

Image 112Nara Daibutsu, c. 752, Nara, Japan (from Sculpture)

Image 1131881 painting by Marie Bashkirtseff, In the Studio, depicts an art school life drawing session, Dnipropetrovsk State Art Museum, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (from Visual arts education)

Image 114Medal of John VIII Palaeologus, c. 1435, by Pisanello, the first portrait medal, a medium essentially made for collecting. (from Sculpture)

Image 115Ivory with traces of paint, 11th–12th century, Egypt (from Sculpture)

Image 116A fresco showing Hades and Persephone riding in a chariot, from the tomb of Queen Eurydice I of Macedon at Vergina, Greece, 4th century BC (from History of painting)